What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So now, how did God produce this world?... The fable is that he breathed upon us. In his breath, his wind, came… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan's 'Blowin' In the Wind' was written into the script of 'Article 15.' It was the only song I wanted in… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
And so we stood together like that, at the top of that field for what seemed like ages, not saying anything, just… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Sunlight and wind are inherently unreliable and energy-dilute. As such, adding solar panels and wind turbines to the grid in large quantities… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
This song of mine Is a song of the vine To be sung by the glowing embers Of wayside inns, When the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself.… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for… — Bill Withers Copy Share Image
All of the experiments are really cool. Probably one of the better ones is "Running in the Rain." It depends on circumstances:… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I love sitting through long things. I mean, 'Gone With the Wind' I will sit through; I love sitting somewhere for four… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable and finally has come to look and not to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Prison is an important part of life. We can't have violent people running around in the streets. (3 out of 4 federal… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I turn the water all the way hot, turn my back to the water, and I take it. I close my eyes… — Adam Berlin Copy Share Image
The world is filled with people who are no longer needed. And who try to make slaves of all of us. And… — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive… — Tim Willocks Copy Share Image
America is home to the best researchers, advanced manufacturers, and entrepreneurs in the world. There is no reason we cannot lead the… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
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